Mother of 4-year-old boy left with neighbor is contacted

A woman who left her 4-year-old boy with a neighbor to baby-sit in Pompano Beach and did not pick up the child as expected made contact with authorities late Saturday night, the Broward Sheriff's Office said Monday.

Over the weekend, BSO had asked the public's help with finding the woman, who had dropped off her son with the baby sitter on July 22.

The little boy had a medical problem and was taken to a hospital, and the agency said it needed to reach his mother.

The child is in foster care until a dependency investigation happens, Broward Sheriff's spokesman Mike Jachles said Monday. The agency did not identify the mother.